Word: saleh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Iraqi Passport. That was certainly not the only anomaly in the affair. Even the circumstances of Abu Daoud's arrest in Paris were strange. He had come to the French capital as a member of a high-ranking Palestinian delegation to attend the funeral of Mahmoud Saleh, a former P.L.O. representative who had been gunned down a few days earlier on a Paris street. Traveling on an Iraqi passport issued in the name of Youssef Hanna Raji, Abu Daoud made no effort to disguise his easily recognizable features. He breezed through immigration and checked into...
...Egyptian-Libyan relations hit a new low when Cairo implied that Gaddafi-a Moslem zealot who fancies himself Nasser's heir as the champion of the Islamic world-was personally linked to a plot to topple Sadat. As Egyptian officials tell it, a 38-year-old fanatic named Saleh Abdulla Sareya (a Palestinian with an Iraqi passport) led a group of youths armed only with knives in an attack against the Egyptian army's Technical Military Academy in suburban Cairo. They expected to encounter no resistance, to capture the academy's arsenal of weapons and vehicles...
Under pressure from Arab diplomats who mediated between the guerrillas and government officials in Paris, the French reluctantly agreed. The Arab diplomats, however, had trouble finding an airline willing to fly the terrorists, and the delay made the gunmen edgy. Trying to ease the tension, Kuwait Ambassador Feisal Saleh Al-Mutawa stood on the curb outside the embassy and through a megaphone pleaded with the terrorists to be reasonable. Explaining the difficulties in arranging for a getaway plane, he shouted: "We couldn't contact the Arab Foreign Ministers in Algiers during the night. They were sleeping." Retorted the gunmen...